THE MODERN APOSTLE.

Waikato Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2047, 20 August 1885, Page 2

THE MODERN APOSTLE.

THE following leferoncc to the " gioat he&lui "' 11 t.iktn fmni .in Austi.ilim paper :— A wicked and jienetse generation refuse to belie vo in Mi Milner Stephen's " magnetic healing* " in Sydney. The pool 1 weie invited to lu> present at 2 p.m , July 24, in West's Rooms, when cuies would be ejected. Mi Mtlner Stephen was thcio with a. choice collection of those peculiarlooking boots with \eiy thick soles, which people with one leg hlrnter thin another wear on the foot which terinin.itos the Hliorter log. Mr Milnei Stephen evpl.iined that tliewo were the discarded boots of people to w bom he had lestored luppine-s by making both of then- log^ erjn.»l in length. While it would have born more satisfactory if the people wliomj legs lmd boon lengthened had been on view, it was a connotation at Iho mnio time to bo .iblo to nee their boots. Out icpoitei waited half an liourj and divided hip time looking at tho btwta and falling asleop on a sofa. Mr Htephon explained tlint tho non-attendance of the Buffering poor was unaccountable Ho had nent round cnculnrs to many clergymen, and had fieelv ndvei tiled in tho papei-H, and this was the iCHponso. Our representative aupgeHtcd " tKister^," or perhai»s a* "bnllman." Mr Stephen •mid ho was *>ot aeciiMtoincd to being thus

neglected by the pubho. At one lecture in New Zealand lie li.id had an audience of 1(500. This was made up of eight hundred persons who were «ible to got inside r building to hear him, aud eight hundred who were not.